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When Holli Hipwell graduated from Fort Lewis College, she figured she’d have to move away to find fulfillment as an event planner. But not only is she still based in Durango three years later, she now gets to bring holiday magic to life for kids and kid-spirited adults across the country. Hipwell (Business Administration, ’13) works...

News Briefs

Longtime Nordic figure, Olympic commentator, and Harvard University ski coach Peter Graves (Physical Education, '76) was honored with the FIS Journalist Award by the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association and the International Ski Federation.

Four FLC students were featured in an article by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology on Native American students doing internships with the National Institute of Health: junior Exercise Science major Skyler Bordeaux, senior Public Health major Cherella Hughes, freshman Biology major Randall Hughes, and sophomore Chemistry major Uriah Contreras.

Over Thanksgiving Break, 50 students, faculty, and staff traveled to South Dakota to join the protest at Standing Rock, bringing donated supplies. Upon their return, they staged a non-violent rally in downtown Durango.

Margaret Tanner (Accounting, '82), associate provost and director of graduate studies at the University of Arkansas – Fort Smith, received the KPMG Mentoring Award from the American Accounting Association.

A collaborative presentation created by the FLC librarians and COMP instructors, titled "Mind the Gap: Harmonizing composition instruction with information literacy outcomes through assessment of annotated bibliographies" won the People's Choice Award at the 2016 Library Assessment Conference in Arlington, Virginia.

FLC students swept the UCCS Business Ethics Case Competition: Senior Business Administration major Connor Caffery and Senior Political Science and Business Administration major Lauren Smith won first place, followed by Junior Business Administration major Drew Faloon and Sophomore Accounting major Trevor Hunt in second place.

Paige Gray, visiting instructor of English, was a guest on Sirius Radio's "The Matt Townsend Show" to discuss her recent Time.com article and the potential pitfalls of America's near obsession with grit.